Shut up about Barclay Perkins

In April 1917 Barclay Perkins dropped their bottling version of XLK and replaced it with “crate”. At first I wondered what the hell they mea...

Let’s take a look at what a couple of decades have done to Whitbread’s main Burton Ale, KK. The most obvious change is in the colour, which ...

A little thing like a global conflict didn’t deter Younger from continuing to brew a baffling array of Pale Ales. One being the bottling ver...

A decade and a half later and the trend to darken Burton Ales has reached its endpoint. With KK now very firmly in the dark camp. The dark c...

WW I doesn’t seem to have treated CC too badly. It came out of the other side only 5º weaker. Not bad at all. Amazingly, the grist has go...

With all the fuss about D-Dy this week, I thought I'd publish a recipe from 1944. And what could be more typical of what was being dru...

Continuing my Mild series for no other reason than I fucking love Mild. Here's another Mild recipe. But not from one of the usual susp...

I'm just realising how few Tetley's recipes I've published. At least on the blog.* Odd given my obsession with the brewery. ...

Here’s a beer with which I have a very personal connection. And not just because it’s from my hometown. Warwicks & Richardsons was o...

The middle Mild of the three parti-gyled together. Though the story is a little more complicated than that. As brewed, X Ale was around ...

Boddington had some confusing names for their beers. B, BB and CC. No idea what they stand for. The first two are Mild Ales, the last one ...

I thought I’d treat you with another early William Younger beer. A very different type of 60/- Ale. By different, I mean different from ...